Intertanko has praised moves at IMO to introduce quality control testing for bunkers, calling it “a step in the right direction” as new sulphur limits loom in North Europe and North America.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and Intertanko have praised IMO’s decision to implement a more stringent type-approval procedure for Ballast Water Management Systems (BWMS) agreed at the Meeting of the Environmental Protection...

Shipping industry associations have issued updated guidelines for anti-piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.

“Sustainability” was the main topic in the sessions Intertanko’s annual gathering, just completed in New York. Highlights included the official signing of Intertanko’s Code of Conduct, a day-long seminar, and a half day of hands-on workshop meetings.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), BIMCO, Intercargo, Intertanko, World Shipping Council (WSC), CLIA and IPTA have criticised “serious implementation problems” in the Ballast Water Management Convention (BWM Convention), following the...

The ongoing impasse between industry leaders on the Ballast Water Management Convention (BWM Convention) continued this week, with it high on the agenda at the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) 66 meeting. The meeting opened...

The 26th Annual Seatrade Awards will be hosted this year by renowned journalist and broadcaster Justin Webb.

“Worse things happen at sea” the saying goes, but does anyone using that phrase envision possibly burning to death in a chemical fire, hundreds of miles out to sea, while bureaucrats squabble over whose problem it is?

The attack by the Intertanko on the proliferation of tanker inspections by charterers has brought the patchwork quilt of shipping regulation into sharp relief once again.

Intertanko aims to rationalise oil companies’ tanker vetting practices by reducing the $300m-and-rising annual burden to one inspection per vessel every six months.